MLPanel for pvrx2 - alpha testers wanted...

[psycik]

Its all to do with what gets loaded first.

The only time sub knows that a plugin has an external reference to something other than itself is when he tells the plugin to initialise.

And i think DLLs with the same name are only loaded once. having the DLL in the gbpvr folder obviosly caused problems for fatman_do, and that wouldn't surprise me. I dont know why, but I'm not gonna argue.

Shared DLLs have always been a problem which is why I tend to not use anyone elses "stuff".

Its interesting that with actcms have two different versions there - and 3 copies...it'd be interesting to see which one each is using (ML2 displays the interfaces version when starting), not sure if actcms implemented the same within MLPanel - I did recommend it as it forces the dll to be loaded at that point...

[Fatman_do]

I really am kicking myself for not saving a copy of that setup. I usually copy the gbpvr folder over on my laptop when doing a bunch of new stuff, but my 40gig hard drive is stressed to the point of every meg counts. Lately, I only back up sub's blue skin.

I will be more diligent in the future to help debug.

Otherwise, if this is going to be a shared DLL, would one location (Common) seem more logical due to future proofing??

Granted I know nothing about coding so what do I know??

[ACTCMS]

Hmmm... That is what fixed it for me, or maybe it was due to a copy being in the gbpvr root directory as well?

I'm in no way criticising your workaround - especially as it works...

It's just that, I'm not too comfortable with a situation like this where I don't fully understand what is happening.

[psycik]

I really am kicking myself for not saving a copy of that setup. I usually copy the gbpvr folder over on my laptop when doing a bunch of new stuff, but my 40gig hard drive is stressed to the point of every meg counts. Lately, I only back up sub's blue skin.

I will be more diligent in the future to help debug.

Otherwise, if this is going to be a shared DLL, would one location (Common) seem more logical due to future proofing??

Granted I know nothing about coding so what do I know??

short answer is yes, and that maybe something changed for the new versions going forward. It will just need some co-ordination between actcms and I. And we may call on you to help with a set up script if we may, for checking older versions etc...

[ACTCMS]

short answer is yes, and that maybe something changed for the new versions going forward. It will just need some co-ordination between actcms and I. And we may call on you to help with a set up script if we may, for checking older versions etc...

That sounds good to me...

[Fatman_do]

Sure, I'll be happy to help with installers.

I had the same experience as a post on the ML2 thread about installing the panel and disabling ML2, so I thought the problem may be a wide spread issue. That is why that became my defacto answer to all these problems.

Good work to the both of you on your efforts. Not sure you developers get the thanks that you guys deserve.

[mvallevand]

I had the same experience as a post on the ML2 thread about installing the panel and disabling ML2, so I thought the problem may be a wide spread issue. That is why that became my defacto answer to all these problems.

Right, I just noticed ML2 isn't even a menu item when the MLPanel folder is there. ACTCMS's email is fine now though.

Martin

[tkgafs]

Alex,

panel seems to work well on PC

but crashes the mvp

008-04-26 10:06:02.518 VERBOSE [6] Responded to ping (after)
2008-04-26 10:06:02.518 VERBOSE [6] getValue cached value: /settings/DisableHauppaugeMVPScreenSaver : true
2008-04-26 10:06:02.518 VERBOSE [6] MVP request processed
2008-04-26 10:06:02.518 VERBOSE [6] MVP waiting for data
2008-04-26 10:06:03.752 VERBOSE [7] Request 36200 bytes (file size:2085021 file location: 289600)
2008-04-26 10:06:03.752 VERBOSE [7] Request completed. 36200 bytes sent
2008-04-26 10:06:03.768 VERBOSE [6] MVP data read: 1 (9)
2008-04-26 10:06:03.768 VERBOSE [6] MVP request processed
2008-04-26 10:06:03.768 VERBOSE [6] MVP waiting for data
2008-04-26 10:06:05.424 VERBOSE [6] MVP data read: 1 (9)
2008-04-26 10:06:05.424 VERBOSE [6] MVP request processed
2008-04-26 10:06:05.424 VERBOSE [6] MVP waiting for data
2008-04-26 10:06:05.440 VERBOSE [7] Request 36200 bytes (file size:2085021 file location: 325800)
2008-04-26 10:06:05.440 VERBOSE [7] Request completed. 36200 bytes sent
2008-04-26 10:06:05.456 VERBOSE [6] MVP data read: 1 (4)
2008-04-26 10:06:05.456 VERBOSE [6] User pressed: 13
2008-04-26 10:06:05.456 VERBOSE [6] about to call OnKeyDown()
2008-04-26 10:06:05.456 VERBOSE [6] Key pressed: Return
2008-04-26 10:06:05.471 WARNING [6] node not found: /settings/Placements/Placement[@name="Playing-1"]
2008-04-26 10:06:05.471 ERROR [6] Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2008-04-26 10:06:05.471 ERROR [6] at GBPVRX2.SkinHelper2.getPlacementRect(String name)
at PsycikProductions.MusicLibrary.MLPanel.ScreenSaver.getViewDimensions(String viewName) in C:\Documents and Settings\Alex\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\MLPanel\ScreenSaver.cs:line 432
at PsycikProductions.MusicLibrary.MLPanel.ScreenSaver.Activate() in C:\Documents and Settings\Alex\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\MLPanel\ScreenSaver.cs:line 645
at GBPVRX2.MenuTask.x9006c1ed9ccb79de.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
at GBPVRX2.MVP.x3ca133dee7547455.x3d75adb3418c5c9e()
2008-04-26 10:06:05.471 VERBOSE [6] MVP sending frame
2008-04-26 10:06:05.674 WARNING [6] node not found: /settings/Placements/Placement[@name="Playing-1"]
2008-04-26 10:06:05.674 ERROR [6] handleMVPConnection() exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2008-04-26 10:06:05.690 VERBOSE [6] at GBPVRX2.SkinHelper2.getPlacementRect(String name)
at GBPVRX2.UiSupport.UiStatic..ctor(SkinHelper2 skinHelper, String compositeImageName, Hashtable args)
at PsycikProductions.MusicLibrary.MLPanel.ScreenSaver.PlayingRenderList(Int32 currentIndex, Int32 trackDuration, Int32 playbackPosition) in C:\Documents and Settings\Alex\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\MLPanel\ScreenSaver.cs:line 249
at PsycikProductions.MusicLibrary.MLPanel.ScreenSaver.GetRenderList() in C:\Documents and Settings\Alex\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\MLPanel\ScreenSaver.cs:line 974
at GBPVRX2.MenuTask.x9006c1ed9ccb79de.GetRenderList()
at GBPVRX2.MVP.x3ca133dee7547455.x19e39e0d5aeedfb8()
at GBPVRX2.MVP.x3ca133dee7547455.x3d75adb3418c5c9e()
2008-04-26 10:06:05.690 ERROR [6] handleMVPConnection() exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2008-04-26 10:06:05.690 VERBOSE [6] at GBPVRX2.SkinHelper2.getPlacementRect(String name)
at GBPVRX2.UiSupport.UiStatic..ctor(SkinHelper2 skinHelper, String compositeImageName, Hashtable args)
at PsycikProductions.MusicLibrary.MLPanel.ScreenSaver.PlayingRenderList(Int32 currentIndex, Int32 trackDuration, Int32 playbackPosition) in C:\Documents and Settings\Alex\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\MLPanel\ScreenSaver.cs:line 249
at PsycikProductions.MusicLibrary.MLPanel.ScreenSaver.GetRenderList() in C:\Documents and Settings\Alex\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\MLPanel\ScreenSaver.cs:line 974
at GBPVRX2.MenuTask.x9006c1ed9ccb79de.GetRenderList()
at GBPVRX2.MVP.x3ca133dee7547455.x19e39e0d5aeedfb8()
at GBPVRX2.MVP.x3ca133dee7547455.x3d75adb3418c5c9e()
at GBPVRX2.MVP.x3ca133dee7547455.xd3faf5962405de4e()

Tkgafs

[psycik]

Looks like this is your problem:
[CODE]node not found: /settings/Placements/Placement[@name="Playing-1"][/.CODE]

It doesn't say what skin you're trying to run it with, but I'm picking that as the issue.

Are you using the blue skin that actcms packaged MLPanel with?

[tkgafs]

I tried it with blue and community skin3

using Alexs supplied skin folder

tkgafs